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Carol of the Bell

As one of my make-work projects to keep me busy while the GF is away this holiday, I took John Bell's compressed three-page RPG Into the Depths and ultra-compressed it into one page.



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Chaos on the Old Borderlands - Introduction

This is the background to my current D&D project, a West Marches cover band cover band cover band. The prep started as just an exercise to do something in the vein of 'bog-standard D&D,' but I've ended up prepping enough material that I might as well post it in case I don't get to run it before my interest turns to something else. 
In a nutshell, the premise is to take the Keep on the Borderlands, and add approximately two centuries of settlement, plagues, invasion, decrepitude, and revanchism. 
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The Eastern Principalities were once the edge of the Realm of Man, the Old Borderlands between Law and Chaos, but rugged explorers and bellicose adventurers slew the orcs and goblins and worse who plagued its forests and swamps, and founded new towns and castles to bring the land within the orbit of light and reason.

But now, as war and rebellion engulfs the Realm of Man, the return of Chaos to the Principality of the Keep again draws grim adventurers to seek fortune …
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Damage Codes for Percentile Dice Systems

One of the things I’ve always liked about Unknown Armies is the amount of information it derives from a single d% roll. The retention of funny dice is my main complaint with the RuneQuest SRD family of games (OpenQuest, Legend, Delta Green, et cetera), especially since they usually only come up in very specific circumstances—HP and Sanity loss. (I have the same problem with 3e-era games; conversely, S&W White Box’s focus on only two die types is the main thing I like about it.)
Unknown Armies’ method of reading percentile rolls for damage results, however, doesn’t translate directly into RuneQuest SRD games due to Unknown Armies’ HP scale is also on a percentile scale (with 50 being the equivalent to RQ’s 10 HP). 
The following is a set of suggestions for reading a d% roll, such as an Combat Style attack roll in RQ, to derive a damage result for a RQ scale of HP (i.e. 3-18, with an average of 10). To use these damage code suggestions, choose which of the damage codes you want to…
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